Holocaust survivors are spearheading a push to outlaw the Nazi salute in Victoria a day after neo-Nazis used the salute at a January 26 ceremony for Indigenous Australians.
Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes will meet with representatives of the Jewish community to discuss a possible ban on the Nazi salute, amid a push to outlaw the gesture in Victoria.
The group is being supported by Melbourne Holocaust Museum chief executive Jayne Josem and Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dr Dvir Abramovich. The push to outlaw the gesture in Victoria comes after a neo-Nazi group attempted to disrupt an Indigenous mourning ceremony at Coburg Town Hall on Thursday morning, with white supremacist banners and Nazi salutes.
“There was a very strong and unequivocal indication from the government at that time that they are certainly open and willing to look at banning other Nazi symbols,” he said.
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